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I started to wonder if I was wrong about this one. Follow my question about in on Stack Exchange But I also found one English usage guide/style guide that lists it: Paul Brians's "Common Errors in English Usage" |
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This seems to have become completely normalized from the millennial generation onward. I only started hearing this variant a few years ago on YouTube. (There may be a regional component I'm not aware of.)
It seems to have come about due to combining "something of a " and "somewhat ".
Some organizations might want the traditional style, some writers might be striving to emulate an older style and not realize this phrasing would be an anachronism:
Also correct would be "This may be somewhat surprising" but that would be a difficult suggestion to generate automatically I think.
Here's one online discussion I found:
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